Date: 06 Aug 2002 20:01:05 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Pierre Beyssac <beyssac@enst.fr> Cc: Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>, Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com>, Alp ATICI <atici@cpw.math.columbia.edu>, Ed Yu <edlyu@yahoo.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers Message-ID: <1028629868.16577.110.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20020806115753.A85868@bofh.enst.fr> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208050157420.15528-100000@cpw.math.columbia.edu> <200208051636.g75GaamW000669@realtime.exit.com> <20020806040903.GA4316@gnuppy.monkey.org> <20020806115753.A85868@bofh.enst.fr>
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On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 19:27, Pierre Beyssac wrote: > As you describe it, it would be almost acceptable. But that's not > as simple as that as I recall it. The supposedly "portable" part > is still a Linux i386 object file -- maybe Nvidia's definition of > portable, but not mine. It has 3 parts. A binary only blob for the kernel, open source code to go with it, binary only GL drivers and a binary only X driver. The idea is you port the open source stuff and link it with the binary glue and get yourself a KLD to run. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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